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Peniophora polygonia (Pers.) Bourdot & Galzin, Hyménomyc. de France (Sceaux): 320 (1928) [1927]

Corticium polygonium Pers., Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 110 (1794)
Thelephora polygonia (Pers.) Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 2: 574 (1801)

Habitat: On dead wood, usually attached branches of Populus alba and Populus tremula. Occasionally on Betula pendula, Quercus robur and Salix spp.

Notes: Occasional but widespread, and may be locally common.

Distribution: E: o, S: o, W: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 32316; Scotland: K(M) 36830

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 150, pl. 152
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 187

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